Periodicals Spotlight: Crime & Delinquency
20 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in News Tags: criminal justice, library resources, periodicals spotlight
Today’s featured periodical is Crime & Delinquency.
Publisher’s Description: Addresses specific policy or program implications or issues social, political, and economic of great topical interest to the professional with direct involvement in criminal justice.
Example articles –
- November 2011: Sentencing Juveniles to Life in Prison: The Reproduction of Juvenile Justice for Young Adolescents Charged With Murder
- September 2011: How Justice System Officials View Wrongful Convictions
- July 2011: The Impact of School Environment and Grade Level on Student Delinquency: A Multilevel Modeling Approach
- May 2011: Perceptions of Police Disrespect During Vehicle Stops: A Race-Based Analysis
- March 2011: Smells Like Teen Spirit: Evaluating a Midwestern Teen Court
- January 2010: Patterns of Victimization and Feelings of Safety Inside Prison: The Experience of Male and Female Inmates
Issues Per Year: 6
Peer Reviewed: Yes
Sullivan Library Has: 2000 – present in print format.
Electronic Database Availability: Issues are available in full-text in SAGE Journals from Jan 1997 to present. Log-in via http://libdb.dc.edu. Ask a librarian if you need for more assistance.
The Sullivan Library’s Internet Resources Page
20 Aug 2010 1 Comment
in News Tags: criminal justice, website evaluation, websites
Imagine this scenario… your professor has asked you to write a paper citing 3 authoritative websites that back up the thesis of your paper.
Where do you start? How do you know what is authoritative? One good place to check first is The Sullivan Library’s Internet Resources page. It features a variety of web sites on many different subjects, including Criminal Justice, Education, Religion, Health Sciences, and many more!
For example, here are some of the links within the Criminal Justice category:
Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics for the U.S. department of Justice
CrimeLynx, the criminal defense practitioner guide through the internet
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data from the University of Michigan
Subject Guide Spotlight: Criminal Justice
22 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
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Did you know we also have a subject guide for Criminal Justice?
This subject guide is located on the Library’s portal page. Some of the highlights include the very best databases to search when you need materials in this field, including ProQuest for journal articles and LexisNexis for newspaper articles.
There is also a section for open access electronic journals. Open access means that anyone can see the entire full text of a journal’s articles without having to pay for it. Some examples include The International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Forensic Science Communications. Below the journals is a section for government and non-government resources — everything from “Poverty-Related Links” to “Bureau of Justice Statistics”!
Can’t make it to the library and are looking for electronic books that you can read from home? There’s a list of applicable databases for you to use in that situation as well.
There is also some links for professional associations (as an example, Northeast Association of Criminal Justice Science), and a listing of physical resources we keep within our reference collection. Since they are reference materials, this means that they are not checked out and are always available for you to look at when the library is open. Some examples include “Guide to American Law”, “Century of Juvenile Justice”, and “Forensic Science and Law”.
Good luck with all your studying this summer and into the fall semester!
Resources regarding Elena Kagan and the Supreme Court
12 May 2010 1 Comment
in News Tags: criminal justice, library resources, websites
With Elena Kagan’s nomination by President Obama to the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress has developed a resource page on her. This page includes websites, videos, articles and books written by her, and more.
The Sullivan Library also has Supreme Court resources within its collection. Here is a very small sample:
347.7326 H675S The Supreme Court: An essential history (Amazon)
347.7326 H867R The Rehnquist Court: Understanding its impact and legacy (Amazon)
347.73 J6370 Oral arguments and decision making on the United States Supreme Court (Amazon)
347.7326 SL56T Television news and the Supreme Court: All the news that’s fit to air? (Amazon)
Other books can be found nearby in the 347.73‘s.
